2007/01/06 by Zs. Sándor, Sándor, Zs., Á. Süli +9
Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #FOS: Physical sciences #Space Physics (physics.space-ph) #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #physics.space-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0701074
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arxiv created 2007/01/06 · openalex publication_date 2007/01/06 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In the near future there will be launched space missions (e.g. COROT, KEPLER), designed to detect Earth-like extrasolar planets. The orbital elements of these (still hypothetic) planets will contain some uncertainties, that can only be eliminated by careful dynamical investigations of the hosting planetary systems. The proportion of extrasolar planetary systems with one known giant planet is high (∼ 90 %), therefore as a first step we have investigated the possible existence of terrestrial planets in these systems. In this paper a development of a stability catalogue of the habitable zones of exoplanetary systems is reported. This catalogue is formed by a series of stability maps, which can help to establish, where Earth-like planets could exist in extrasolar planetary systems having one giant planet. After a description of the dynamical model and the numerical methods, details of the stability maps are discussed. An application of the stability catalogue to 15 known exoplanetary systems is also shown, and a characterization of the stability properties of their habitable zones is given.